Paedophile rugby coach jailed

A Lincolnshire rugby coach with a self-confessed interest in young girls has been jailed for three years after being ensnared by a police sting.

Jacob Cook, 30, from Woodhall Spa, was caught by an officer pretending to be a 13-year-old girl online.

Cook requested photos of the girl and asked to take her virginity.

He also admitted three charges of making a total of 230 indecent images of children.

The man was jailed for three years and given a seven-year sexual harm prevention order.

Sentencing, Judge John Pini said that paedophile offences are "very worryingly on the increase".

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These offences are significantly and very worryingly on the increase. Hardly a week goes by without this court seeing cases of young girls being groomed online by older men. These offences are... very worrying to the courts and they cause very considerable public concern.
from Judge John Pini

These offences are significantly and very worryingly on the increase. Hardly a week goes by without this court seeing cases of young girls being groomed online by older men. These offences are... very worrying to the courts and they cause very considerable public concern.

Council decides how to spend £5.4m road fund

£5.4m worth of government funding will be spent improving the A17, according to Lincolnshire County Council.

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Improvements to the A17 at Gedney, Holbeach and in Sleaford are planned.

The county council also intend on spending some of the money improving junctions on Wragby Road in Lincoln, making significant repairs to the Louth Bypass and sprucing up bus shelters across the county.

Coastal path for entire English coast

It's an ambitious plan, but Natural England are working on creating a good quality path along the entire English coast.

They're currently working on sections between Mablethorpe and Skegness.

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Although there are paths already on England's coast, the hope is to link them all up and improve them.

Andrew Best, senior adviser at Natural England, says some areas have better paths than others, and it's a case of "joining these bits together".

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We can improve paths, we can make sure it's really well signposted and make sure it's crystal clear where to go. There are places we can improve the surface and create little link paths.
from Andrew Best Senior Advisor - Natural England

We can improve paths, we can make sure it's really well signposted and make sure it's crystal clear where to go. There are places we can improve the surface and create little link paths.